The unwelcome, unsought and altogether unsexy COVID-19 pandemic was arguably the greatest monkey wrench for the dating app industry. The business model is founded on forging proximate relationships, and—rightly or wrongly—associated ...
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Mar 10, 2022
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The World Health Organization officially declared COVID a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Now, two years later, there's light for some at the end of the tunnel. In many wealthier countries, which have benefited from several rounds ...
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Mar 10, 2022
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Two years into the pandemic, marginalized young people in developing countries are struggling to cope and going hungry—even more than ever—according to Oxford University-led research out today (9 March).
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2022
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Curbing or even containing a pandemic breakout like COVID-19 almost always implies unpalatable choices between lost lives and livelihoods. The authors of a new study just published in the Journal of Economic Literature set ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people's social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions ...
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Mar 4, 2022
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As the warnings to "stay at home" fade from memory and we're told we must "learn to live with COVID," it is easy to forget the first dread-filled days of the pandemic two years ago. Then, kisses, hugs and handshakes were ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2022
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A new study highlights neighborhood-level gun violence dynamics in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying statistical links between changes in shooting rates and levels of drug market and police activity. ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a massive economic downturn on a par with that experienced in the 2008 financial crash. Work published in the Global Business and Economics Review looks at this crisis from the perspective of ...
Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2022
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Research shows that historically, large-scale events such as World War II, the Great Depression, the 2008 recession and the SARS and N1H1 epidemics have impacted children's developmental trajectories with long-lasting effects. ...
Education
Feb 23, 2022
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Ever since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency in January 2020, there's been a need for studies that help explain what people understand by public health messages.
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2022
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